Defund Obamacare By Making Your Voice Heard

The fight to defund Obamacare care is brewing among Libertarian-minded and fiscally conservative lawmakers, but will elected officials have the backbone to vote their conscience and in favor of personal liberties? Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz is leading the charge to defund Obamacare and is encouraging all citizens who feel the same to contact their lawmakers and make their voices heard.

Senator Ted Cruz raised the extremely valid concern that some Washington, D.C. Republicans might hold back during the fight to defund Obamacare because they are afraid of being beaten up verbally by their liberal peers. Since typically Democrat-loving union leaders are voicing opposition to Obamacare because they finally realized it would be a job killer, at least some GOP worries should have diminished. Thin-skinned politicians who cannot withstand a little name calling in order to do their jobs do not deserve another dime of their taxpayer-funded salaries.

Cruz had this to say about pressuring his fellow Republicans to defund Obamacare:

“What I can tell you is that there are a lot of Republicans in Washington who are scared; they’re scare of being beat up politically. [They are worried Harry Reid would] scream at the top of his lungs about the evil mean nasty Republicans were trying to shut down the federal government. If we stand together, that’s how we win this fight. Listen, I can’t win this fight. Mike Lee can’t win this fight. Marco Rubio can’t win this fight. No politician in Washington can win this fight, because if it’s just going to be arguments in the Senate cloakroom, the votes are against us. The one principal is true, I think liberty is never safer than when politicians are terrified.”

Undeterred by potential liberal backlash, Senator Cruz is telling his fellow Republicans not to vote for any budget that includes funds for the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Cruz is right; a federal government shut down might not be such a bad thing. Until both the American people and the folks we all sent to Washington are willing to take a stand, the “tax and spend into oblivion” policies of liberals will bring the greatest nation in the world to its knees.

If yet another continuing resolution is not passed by September 30, the federal government will come to a screeching halt. If Congress cannot pass a balanced budget on time every time the law requires, they should be met at their Washington, D.C. offices by movers clearing out their offices. GOP lawmakers fearful they would be blamed for the shutdown and the party would lose seats in the next election are as complicit in the Obamacare and deficit problems as their socialist-leaning colleagues across the aisle. After the federal government shut down in 1995, Republicans only lost a few House seats and the first real fiscal reform in a decade was hashed out.

The dire consequences President Barack Obama claimed would occur after the sequester never came to pass. The United States can survive a federal government shutdown with similar results. Lawmakers have about two months to reach a fiscally responsible and freedom-respecting deal and prevent worries about millions of Americans doing without food and medication when government checks do not arrive in the mail. No one wants to see a senior citizen or member of the military struggle needlessly, but holding public relations nightmare threats over the heads of lawmakers just kicks the can down the road… again. If Republicans draw a line in the sand now and demonstrate unequivocally that the spending status quo can continue no longer and Obamacare is scrapped, liberal doomsday predictions about life in the wake of a federal government shutdown can be avoided.

Want to contact your Representatives and Senators and tell them how you feel about a federal government shutdown and defunding Obamacare? Use the contact information below to reach your lawmakers and share your opinion. Some urls take you directly to an email page while others take you to the home page of the senator or congressman where you’ll have to click on their “Contact Me” link.

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I have requested and demanded that my CongressCritters end this dastardly and destructive UnAffordable Health Care Plan immediately. If you honestly believe you will benefit from the plan then Good Luck OTHERWISE contact your critters and demand they get rid of it NOW.http://www.cruz.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=345530

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